Concentrating largely on new British writers and plays, Michael Codron has produced around one hundred and thirty West End shows including recently Entertaining Angels, The Importance of Being Earnest, Glorious!, Losing Louis, Ying Tong - A Walk with The Goons, Democracy, Dinner, My Brilliant Divorce, Blue/Orange, Copenhagen, Comic Potential and The Invention Of Love.

He has been the principal producer and usually the original and only producer of the work of a number of writers. These include Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Bennett, Michael Frayn, Simon Gray, Christopher Hampton, Frank Marcus, John Mortimer, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. He is administrator of the Aldwych Theatre and was a Cameron Mackintosh Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford. He is a graduate of Worcester College, Oxford, and was appointed CBE in August 1989.